Chelsea star Antonio Rudiger insists Jurgen Klopp makes you feel 'like you're the best in the world' after working with the Liverpool manager during his time at Borussia Dortmund.

The German international came through the youth system at the Bundesliga club while Klopp was the head coach, before the defender made the switch to Stuttgart and broke into their first team.

Klopp has now taken the Reds to a Champions League final and the 25-year-old is set for a reunion with the German manager when the Blues host Liverpool at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.

Rudiger has adapted well to the Premier League after making the move from Roma this summer, but the German international remembers Klopp when he was a youngster and the influence that he would have on the players.

"I spoke to him [Klopp] twice, because he used to watch a lot of academy games," Rudiger said. "He invited me also to a friendly match. I was 16, or something like that.

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Rudiger managed that and he has no regrets about moving on from Dortmund to a 'smaller' club and to where he would get now.

"For me, it was important because at the time it was the Dortmund that won the league twice in a row. There was almost no chance [to make my debut].

"So for me, I was young but I was very realistic. I knew okay, maybe I need to go. It wasn't a step back, maybe it was even a step forward. I went to a team that was a bit more low but I was playing. I knew for myself I had to leave Dortmund to play first-team football.

"He [Klopp] had nothing to do with it [leaving Dortmund], because I was in the youth."

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Antonio Rudiger was speaking to football.london at the launch of Chelsea's Sensory Room at Stamford Bridge.

The room is designed for families with children with additional sensory needs to enjoy being at Stamford Bridge on non-match days as well as during a game on match days. The sensory room offers a nurturing person centred supportive environment, and is used to facilitate empowerment, self-organisation, relaxation, sensory awareness, activity tolerance and general awareness of self, peers and the environment.

Located in the East Stand, the purpose-built room includes a range of interactive sensory activities to create a relaxing and calming atmosphere while encouraging concentration and gentle visual stimulation, and will be in operation on a match day for the first time this weekend when Chelsea host Liverpool at Stamford Bridge.